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Family Histories Peter Hawkins and His Family Peter Hawkins was the first child born into slavery at the Jesuits’ Saint Stanislaus Novitiate and Farm in Florissant, Missouri, and the last formerly enslaved person to leave the seminary after emancipation. He witnessed and lived through almost the entirety of enslaved people’s presence at Saint Stanislaus. As […]https://www.jesuits.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Peter-Hawkins-baptism-record.jpg2486578